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Ruben Blades

Panamanian Musician

Born: Jul 16, 1948

Had Music Panama People Think You

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I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. Ruben Blades

Best Knowledge Ignorance Think Society Risk Becoming Died Informed Ever

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. Ruben Blades

City Born Area July San Republic Panama

There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics. Ruben Blades

Lyrics Out About Something More Emotion Tango Even Brings

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. Ruben Blades

Music Youth Generation Young Rock Just Speaks Oriented

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. Ruben Blades

Neighborhood About Sing Sort Began Thirteen

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here. Ruben Blades

People Think Latin Latin America Almost Hip America Happening Here

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami. Ruben Blades

Family Came Miami Panama

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with. Ruben Blades

Family Money Something Obvious Became Because Without Left Miami Begin Any Anything While Really Needed

What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off. Ruben Blades

People Ripped Fact Talents Accept Were Off Many

In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market. Ruben Blades

Big Market Latin Those Days Particular Labels Any Interest

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city. Ruben Blades

Life Mother Everybody City Student Songs Identified Because Were Intellectual Unemployed Worker Grandmother Professional Descriptions

I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band. Ruben Blades

Book Band Booking Ourselves Decided Should Started

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened. Ruben Blades

People Dance Say Something Had Listened Whenever Played

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds. Ruben Blades

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985. Ruben Blades

Band Toured Like Were German Very Germany Interesting

Everyone has a black guy inside them. Mine is a Cuban sonero who is 80-something years old and sings better than I do. His name is Medoro Madera. Medoro has been recording since 1997. Ruben Blades

Better Old Black Recording Everyone Mine Has-Been Inside Guy Since Name Cuban Sings Been His Years Than Them Who

I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics. Ruben Blades

Collected Dead Comics Walking Walking Dead

My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us. Ruben Blades

Reality School Mother Father Finished Never Us Many Elementary Elementary School

I was never particularly a part of the following of tango; I just liked it... most of all, I recognized that the urban content and the approach seemed very familiar and very connected to the songs that I was doing, the kind of songs that I wanted to write - the songs about the street. Ruben Blades

Approach Recognized Kind Following About Seemed Write Never Songs Part Liked Most Particularly Content Doing Tango Very Familiar Just Wanted Urban Connected Street

I was always interested in trying to find how different genres would affect the lyrics that I'd written. Salsa is where most of my songs have been recorded, the genre of salsa. It's very frenetic, fast-paced. And I felt that the lyrics sometimes were being lost. Ruben Blades

Sometimes Lost Lyrics Would Find Recorded Songs Written Most Genre Genres Felt Always How Were Affect Been Very Trying Being Where Different Interested Different Genres Fast-Paced

To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action. Ruben Blades

You Action Charisma More Records Than Fix Need Program Panama

In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible. Ruben Blades

Entertainment Quality Horrible General Both Spanish English Media

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